Page 27 of Address delivered at the anniversary celebration of the birth of Spurzheim : and the organization of the Boston Phrenological Society, January 1, 1838 / by Elisha Bartlett.

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benevolent God. All these varied and beautiful relationships
and adaptations have been rendered, by the clear and new light
which Phrenology has shed upon the faculties of the mind,
more manifest and more wonderful than they had ever before
appeared. I pass by this theme with reluctance. Many voices
are calling out to us to stop,-many hands beckon to us to pause
and to ponder it. COLOR holds to our eyes her prism, and
asks us to look,-TUNE touches her harp-strings, and invites
us to listen. The connexion which the Creator has seen fit to
establish, duringthe present state of our existence, between the
mental and the physical constitution of man,-imparting, as
this connexion does, to bodily labor the dignity of moral action,
-and making, as this connexion so manifestly does, obedience
to the physiological laws a moral duty;-the relation between
the knowing and reasoning powers, on the one hand, and the
properties and laws of the entire universe of matter, on the
other,-accurately adapted, as this relation is, to excite and de-
velope the perceptive and reflective faculties,-demonstrating,
as it does, the constantly and illimitably progressive character
of science and knowledge;-the delightful correspondence
which exists between all our social faculties, on the one hand,
and our social relations, and the discipline of life, on the other,
transforming evil into good, endowing it with a blessed and
beneficent ministry;-between ideality and all forms and ex-
pressions, in nature and in art, in spirit and in matter, of the
beautiful;-between marvellousness, and all that wonder and
mystery of man's being and environment, which science, in-
stead of dissipating and clearing up, only deepens and increases;
-between veneration, and whatever is exalted above us,-its
worthiest and truest object being none else than God himself;-
between that supremacy of the moral and religious sentiments,
which the Father of our spirits has instituted, and the continual
advancement in all happiness and well-being of humanity,-
thus rendering this advancement not probable, but certain,-the
necessary and inevitable result of man's constitution:-all
these, and many other like considerations, are crowding upon